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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

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I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware. ↗

— Diosdado Macapagal

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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#coming #evidently #may #recede #single

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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